Summary

Part 2 is titled “Camp,” and is subtitled “on waiting and in-between places” (69).

In Chapter 1 of Part 2, the author describes arriving with Maman and Khosru in wealthy Dubai, which she says was an unusual place for refugees to go. Turkey, she adds, was much easier to get into, get out of, and to live in while waiting. She says that they were there on three-month visas procured for them by Baba, one of what she describes as the large number of favors that he did for them. As she and her family settled into a hostel with large numbers of other refugees, the author says, they kept themselves busy with imaginings of all the wonderful things that they were going to have once they made their way to freedom. Maman, meanwhile, began to make arrangements for them to claim refugee status, intending that...